No renovation to Wootton?

[Anonymous]

Just curious after last BOE meeting, are all plans for renovation cancelled?
Before my child in 7th grade at Frost was repeatedly told by school officials that for 3 years current 7th graders will go to Silver Spring holding school instead of Wootton.
We were not very excited about it...

[Anonymous]

I was told that the renovations would occur on one section of the building at a time. By using extra portables, the students could remain at Wootton.

[Anonymous]

Thomas S. Wootton High School
Capital Project: Based on the Montgomery County Council
Office of Legislative Oversight (OLO) study of the revitalization/expansion
program released in July 2015, this program is
under review in order to develop a multi-variable approach
to determine the priority order of large-scale renovations of
facilities, possibly including programmatic and capacity considerations.
Recommendations regarding possible changes to
this program will be released once the review is complete.
Capital Project: Projections indicate that enrollment will
exceed capacity by the end of the six-year planning period.
Expenditures are recommended in the six-year period to open
a new high school on the Crown Farm site to address overutilization
in the mid-county region. An FY 2019 appropriation
for planning is recommended to begin the architectural
design for this new school. Once the planning is complete, a
recommendation will be included in the next full CIP regarding
the phasing and completion date for the opening of this
new high school.

http://gis.mcpsmd.org/cipmasterpdfs/CIP19_Chap4_Wootton.pdf

[Anonymous]

^^
Does this mean that renovation on hold until further notice? So they will first sort out Crown and may not need renovation at all in next 6 years since boundary may change? (Sounds like Duffief with addition may go to Crown or to QO if MCPS is very creative.)
I guess I do not care much, since my kids will be out of HS by that time. I hope new Crown will not be too bad school.

[Anonymous]

Yes. The plans for Crown have put the renovation to Wootton on hold.

[Anonymous]

And the RM addition. The sad thing is you know it will take years for the process and everyone will be screwed

[Anonymous]

Sending Wootton kids to a holding school was never a serious alternative. The holding schools aren't big enough.

[Anonymous]

They wanted to keep incoming Freshmen in Silver Spring and the rest in Wootton or something like this, so current 7th graders will get hit for 3 years.
Basically total mess for social life, after school activities, and sleeping time etc. for most of HS...

[Anonymous]

Crown had nothing to do with Wooton not happening. MCPS is revising their strategies for long range planning. FACT scores, which had Wooton, Poolesville than Damascus next in line is out the door. The new determination is Key Facility Indicators, and they are in the process of switching to this new way of improving/renovating, starting with next years CIP. 5 schools, which were already in process (and had already been delayed and delayed and delayed) moved forward this year.

[Anonymous]

Wootton has already had one renovation. On the other hand Poolesville which was built in 1952 has never had a day of renovation. The building is not ADA compliant and if the right person made the right phone call to the right person Smith would be falling all over himself to kiss ass.

No one will do this but make a trip out to Poolesville on a Saturday when basketball is going on and take a tour of the school. It's amazing how much neglect has been allowed to occur. Kids cannot get down the hall between change of classes, there is no water in some of the bathrooms, and plaster is falling into classrooms.

If the same building would have stood in Rockville or Bethesda it would have been demolished 15 years ago.

[Anonymous]

MCPS long range facility planning, maintenance, and management is terrible. Maybe because we keep electing BOE members who don't know what they're doing, and who put people in long range facility planning jobs who don't know what they're doing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MCPS long range facility planning, maintenance, and management is terrible. Maybe because we keep electing BOE members who don't know what they're doing, and who put people in long range facility planning jobs who don't know what they're doing.

MCPS BOE is the absolute worst. Liberals with no time or money management

[Anonymous]

Actually, it's not the Board of Education it's the County Council. They don't give enough funds to address the needs of all the schools. The Council then points the state and says the state doesn't give us enough money. The ongoing finger-pointing is exhausting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Actually, it's not the Board of Education it's the County Council. They don't give enough funds to address the needs of all the schools. The Council then points the state and says the state doesn't give us enough money. The ongoing finger-pointing is exhausting.

Bull, it's the School Board. They cannot manage anything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MCPS long range facility planning, maintenance, and management is terrible. Maybe because we keep electing BOE members who don't know what they're doing, and who put people in long range facility planning jobs who don't know what they're doing.

MCPS BOE is the absolute worst. Liberals with no time or money management

If you and the PP think that you can do it better, then you should run for a seat on the BoE in 2018.